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In my circle; its still as strong as its ever been. Local VC-backed companies are still looking for people. Local VCs are still investing in tech companies (maybe at a slower rate, but its not obvious to me this is the case). My company (pu
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Its not great data, but peak Steam player counts: Witcher 1 Enhanced Edition: 12,685 Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition: 12,884 Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: 103,329
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Here's a little math. Let's assume a $400,000 home pre-high interest rate regime. Assume, and this is the critical assumption as you say: six to twelve months from now that price drops 10%, to $360,000. You, the buyer, put 10% dow
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> I could afford 3 of my current mortgages currently, The key word being: currently. I wouldn't begin to speak to individual situations, but: what the World is and will continue to go through in order to correct some of the imbalanc
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Couple things to note about this: 1) Mortgages dropped below 3.5% in ~2019. The median duration of home ownership in the US is 8 years. So: asserting that "most people I speak to who have locked in <3.5% are not planning on selling
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Its important to note that every leader of a strong company has a financial interest in saying this, regardless of its validity. Growing companies need to "leave the hatches open" (so to speak) to, well, continue to grow; hire, at
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I'm, generally, not bullish: But only because the predominating "what value do products like this bring" arguments from those who are bullish is some variation of "it's great for learning/beginners". That&
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There's a lot of very serious ones in here; I'm going to opt for something a bit lighter: I regret not being more diligent in money management throughout university and after graduation. Working a ton, but not saving. Not investin
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I could not agree more, and I think this take is one of those mental jumps that the pro-Sprint crowd hasn't made yet, but would if they adjust their mental view of how organizations are structured to see it. My long term pet theory (li
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But again, sprints can also devolve into that. Structure becomes valueless when people subvert it; there's nothing particular about kanban which makes it more susceptible to this than scrum.
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Musk has said similar things in the past; that cars should be able to do everything human drivers can do with only vision, because that's all human drivers have (discounting the far more minor sensory inputs like sound and touch). I fi
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There's a big difference between A Peak and The Peak. Cobblers hit The Peak of their employment numbers long in the past; but software still dominates the world. What I've observed: Uninvested VC funds are still at extremely high
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I would argue that the optimal number of AWS Accounts is Zero.
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This is, by far, the most confusing thing to happen in the industry in quite a while. Per the video: Nvidia represents 80% of EVGA's revenue. EVGA isn't planning to expand their product lines. They're "financially sound&
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Not just humans; NTFS & Windows itself do as well :)
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> Keep the work parallel, the groups small, and the resources local. I think about this a lot in software organizations. Like most takes, I'm probably wrong. Keeping work parallel is, well, hard, and context dependent. Not worth com
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Yeah; I think its a mistake to view the crypto ecosystem as one entity, even though its easy to think of it like that outside-in. We don't treat tech that way; Apple is at war with Facebook, and they're lobbying for fairly differe
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The V for Vendetta movie was only an adaptation of the 1982 comic series written by Alan Moore.
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We do; you just aren't looking. Its REALLY important to note the macroeconomics of our current climate. Tech is so, so, so rich right now. There's so much money flowing around that we just brute force our way through every problem
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I think you're right, but I think you're stopping short of recognizing that maybe this is a reason why so many ICs have issues with the EM role. If the role of an EM is to be a Shield Against Complexity for the team, then two thin
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I think the critical point is: You've done both. I don't know you, but I will go out on a limb and say: having that history as an IC makes you a better EM; one of the good ones I hope. Great EMs have that experience; and it makes
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I think what you're describing isn't inexperience or immaturity; its idealism in the idea that competent people should hold power. The world may not work like that, but it isn't immature to fight for it.
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Some of you people strawman like a murder of crows is attacking your field. Coordination is necessary. Communication is valuable. Running a business is complex. Product managers do valuable work. Designers do valuable work. QA does valuable
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I think Software Development is far more creative than you give it credit. Let me list a few realities of modern software development: 1) You give a spec to ten different engineers. You'll get ten wildly different solutions, from decis
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> I don’t understand your point about PMs. You’re saying that the responsibilities of an EM should be that of a PM. So you’re just arguing for a name change? Or something else? Well, its not just a name change, but generally Yes. The big
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I can't speak for everyone, but I would not argue against PMs or Senior Leadership. There are two critical differentiators in the role of an EM: power over those managed, and the bias toward management over productive output. The peopl
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I've seen this happen in smaller teams; it can work well! Productive teams and skilled engineers can manage their own workload. Not all of them want to do that, so that needs to be taken into account, but it can work spectacularly. I
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I don't think its possible to just take it away and see what happens, because organizations build the concept of EMs into their entire culture. As an example: I worked in a Big Tech org where the only way to get anything from another
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Maybe these articles are written by people who have never been managers themselves. I'd also posit that most of the defense of the position comes from managers. Do you not recognize the irony in this? I'm sure you're aware of
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Its true, but I think the impact is what matters. Even a below average dev produces output; it may be substantially less than a great dev, it may not be of the highest quality, they may require more hands-on reviews and mentorship from othe

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